Housing
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I live in a tiny town in Northeast GA with no jobs to speak of and a trailer costs $1500 a month with a $1500 deposit and people are jumping at the opportunity because a 2br apt co...
Housing and infrastructure are only “less productive” than business investment in the sense that they initially deliver a lower RoI in *percentage terms. But their useful lives ar...
a glimpse of what socialist housing looks like from Austria, and it's beautiful https://t.co/pGIaDWLMbZ
Abdul, a lawyer, who had a wife & 12 children, needed to move because his rental agreement was terminated by the owner who wanted to reoccupy the home. But Abdul was having a lot...
I have listened, I have learned, I have done the work, and still I have no idea why "unhoused" is better" than "homeless"
No one : Absolutely no one : Lusaka Agents : Standalone flat for rent with modern fittings ( Viewing fee K150) The flat : https://t.co/4NCLFh3mzE
Only “partly” true. Demand for real estate as housing *is* driving construction. It gets crowded out some when speculation drives up prices forcing those who want new houses for li...
EMERGENCY MUTUAL AID REQUEST Allies and comrades my safety and housing is at risk. I need to raise funds for rent by June 3rd, or I will incur an additional $100 fee. Eviction st...
The economists are wrong and the people are right (@bryan_caplan @ATabarrok ). It's perfectly rational to believe increased local supply will increase local prices, because people...
EVICTION RISK Hey Friends it’s Emu. Rent is due on 6/5 and I’m currently $900 short. After 6/3 I get a $100 late fee. I’m experiencing extreme manifestations of stress. I am beggi...
Notes on Affordable Housing programme (AHP). A long thread
Tim Helm of @Prosper_Aust finds that the pandemic created an excess supply of housing of about 6%. This lowered rent by about 12%. That makes sense. It's within the range of othe...
🧵The Next Great Housing Crash 🧵 1/ Housing Is America's most important asset. Decades of savings are in the average American's home, and mere renovations are now major investment...
The economy is shrinking, The taxes are hiking, If you earn less than 25K, Stop panicking, Read this thread 🧵... #ManDay
Nearly 50% of Americans who bought a home during the pandemic regretted their purchase. Why? They underestimated the costs. Most costs catch them off guard. You can buy a home i...
90% of Singaporeans own their own home, and though they are mostly apartments, the government works hard to ensure that they can be upgraded: https://t.co/yshJlG0tRp https://t.co...
🧵The Next Great Housing Crash 🧵 1/ Housing Is America's most important asset. Decades of savings are in the average American's home, and mere renovations are now major investment...
NEW: for this week’s column, I looked at the impact of London’s sky-high house prices and rents on young families https://t.co/q8sBxB1IpZ
these go away when cities get richer and demand for housing increases, and they exist in saint louis primarily because the population has declined about 65% from its peak the hous...
Even after 75 years of independence and over 10 government schemes, why is having a roof over one’s head still a distant dream for many Indians? Despite being a basic necessity, o...
NEW: housing shortages, affordability crises and NIMBYism are growing problems in many countries, but what’s especially striking is how much worse they all are in Anglophone countr...
Apartment Rents Fall as Crush of New Supply Hits Market - The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/IeXzCEV8y9
“My landlord is selling my rental property and I will have to move by the end of the month. So far my housing search has resulted in properties that are four times what I am curre...
Called akiya, or abandoned homes, they have spread like mould in the past few years. The last time the Japanese government made a count, five years ago, it found 8.5 million houses...